I read the book when it first came out, and it was just kind of a hoot. I was working in a bookstore, and the manager, whose taste was similar to mine, recommended it as just that. Anita wasn't a wonderful person, but it was an interesting world concept. It's hard to read the earlier books now because you can see all the awfulness foreshadowed.
The book fit just fine in the SF&F shelf at our store, and it was part of an explosion, not of urban fantasy, but of books with female main characters. A lot of the well-known female PI series began around then; people like Barbara Hambly were writing books with strong and interesting female characters.
If you read further, you'll get Anita undercover in a houseful of swingers in the countryside outside of St. Louis, and Edward ditto, and Anita in some situations in which she legitimately had to fear for her life.
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The book fit just fine in the SF&F shelf at our store, and it was part of an explosion, not of urban fantasy, but of books with female main characters. A lot of the well-known female PI series began around then; people like Barbara Hambly were writing books with strong and interesting female characters.
If you read further, you'll get Anita undercover in a houseful of swingers in the countryside outside of St. Louis, and Edward ditto, and Anita in some situations in which she legitimately had to fear for her life.